After the fire goes out

After the fire goes out

Jody's Notes

It's a genre. An image, self-standing, but one that tugs us in an emotional direction. I don't like writing too many of these--it would be a kind of laziness. Because poems should be more than the exploration of a single image. (I think that, anyway.) There's narrative, there's the sensibility of a narrator to depict. And so on. The point is to manage all of this--or a lot of this--in a tiny space, a really tiny space. This is the point of some poems, anyway.